Langley Green Maltings - Gallery

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Langley Green Maltings, Oldbury, West Midlands.

Wolverhampton & Dudley Breweries Ltd

Gallery: Langley Green Maltings

Maltings site up for sale in 2006
Roof detail
Two of six kiln vents
Roof gulley
Three more kiln vents
Barley bins and kiln vents
Classic kiln pagoda
Looking out over the Black Country
Three kiln vents
The façade beside the canal
The maltings was built in 1898 for Showells Crosswell Brewery
The maltings passed to W&D in 1944
When it closed in 2005, it was Britain's biggest floor maltings producing around 5000 tonnes a year
Beside the barley bins
Five kilns in this view
Facing the Titford Canal - at 511 feet above sealevel it is one of Britain's highest
More brickwork
The Bridge pub from the maltings
Architectural detail
Modern barley storage and the canal
Barley storage block
Detail of the modern building
Barley bins from across the canal
Grain storage and the old maltings
There is a lot of wood about
There is a lot of wood about
Please don't
On top of the grain bins
Barley screen
Schematic of barley plant
Details of the plant schematic
All empty
Bin feeding conveyors
Bin feeding conveyors
More conveyors
Collecting barley dust
Hopper above a xteep vessel
Inlet to steep vessel
One of six floors, each with two 9.2 tonne pieces on each
There are two malt houses with three floors in each
Detais of a column hread
No more malt to turn
Pretty chilly on a February day
Boby barrow for loading the kiln
Kiln loading conveyor
Inside a malt kiln
Inside a malt kiln
Malt kiln floor
Looking up a kiln vent
Emptying the plant
No more visitors

Langley Green Maltings in 2005

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